When 10 year old Connor West was asked to complete a project to help his community, he decided to support the Food Bank.
Connor, who is a student at Chirton C of E Primary School, attends Melksham St John’s Badgers division on a Tuesday night. Since he could no longer attend during the Covid Lockdown, he was given a Community Badger Project, and as part of this, he made and distributed leaflets to the residents of Matilda Way in Devizes and to friends, family and his school, setting up a food drop off zone for the Food Bank.
Over the next few weeks, friends, neighbours and school teachers, delivered food and health care products to the drop off zone, resulting in an amazing collection of over 200 items.
“I feel really proud of what we achieved and that we live in such a kind community,” Connor says. “Please keep supporting our food banks, they really need it.”
Connor’s mum Karen says: Many thanks goes to our community for all their support, for relatives Hazel and Jason Lodge for being our inspiration in our project, Hazel herself, a long term worker for her local Food Bank in West Sussex and also to Liz, our Devizes and District Food Bank contact for all her help.